Elena Kagan and the Keystone Republican't Cops

Does it bother anyone that President Obama can't talk without us hearing how the world will come to an end if anyone agrees with him? I suppose if you are sliding over a cliff you will grasp at anything initially and then claw at rock until your finger bleed as you are at the brink.

Senator Jeff Session, the ranking Republican on the committee, told George Stephanopoulos he wasn’t so sure; “This is a confirmation process not a coronation." S here we have one Senator insinuating what? Why the talk of Coronations and Czars coming from the party of wealth and power?

Frank Lutz is the savvy wordsmith of the darkside that got it right about what most Americans hate these days his only problem it happens to be the arrogant Republican't jerks he represents. So Frank designed a tapestry of oft repeated points for getting poor and middle income people to "Hate Government" it goes something like this.

Repeat early and often these sayings:

"Big Government" = to take your eye off the real bureaucracy "Big Business"
"Czar, Coronation..." = To make you think of government as a dictatorship
"Cram/Ram/Stuff down your throats" = Make majority opinion appear something akin to rape.
"Socialism, Fascism, any-ism" = Something other than Democracy
"The Democrat Party" = we can't have people confusing democracy with "Those People"
"The Elite/Intellectual" vs "Common Sense" = So you believe Democrats are aloof snobs while listening to Republican't aloof snobs tell you what to do.
"Tax & Spend Liberals" = So you can't see the Republican't party has been "Spend and Bankrupt the Country Conservatives"

Sure the country is upset, so much so, some people are preparing for the "End of Days" with great delight while stocking up on guns, food, gasoline and other supplies for some vague catastrophic event that will wipe out mankind. Why do you need all of this for the end of the world? Is it to kill everyone in sight while waiting to die?

But back to Kagen

Elena Kagan has a superb record of legal accomplishment yet the buzzards are out pecking. I don't mind intelligent comment and I do consider Jeff Sessions an intelligent person after listening to his questioning of Halliburton at the Senate hearing on the BP oil spill, but really what kind of logic can you credit him with after comparing Kagen to Abdul.

From Andy Borowitz ~ "Howling in protest over Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s lack of judging experience, leading Republicans today urged the President to withdraw Kagan and instead nominate Paula Abdul.

“The American people have had years of watching Paula’s judging expertise, and they know that she is fair,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee."

I look at the legacy the Republicant's gave us with John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito and see something other than justice something akin to the phrase "gimme, gimme, gimme" with no understanding of what it means struggle in life.

Thee used to be a value in apolitical thought that was more concerned with right thinking and not right leaning.

So far Barack Obama has nominated two people to the Supreme Court both are even handed and better represent moderate thought and both have been blasted by the Republican'ts as unqualified even though both are extremely qualified and highly intelligent.

I read the comment Jeff Sessions made and wondered if he is expressing thoughts better said about Clarence Thomas and never got a chance to say.

Late news - BP, Transocean and Halliburton in a Ménage à trois made in hell.

It has been a day of finger-pointing at the first Senate hearing on what caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. None of the men representing the three companies — BP, Transocean, and Halliburton — have wanted to admit total responsibility for what caused the accident on April 20, which resulted in 11 deaths, and in 4,000 square miles of oil contaminated water in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ménage à trois ~ In contemporary usage, the meaning of the term has been extended to mean any living relationship between three people, whether or not sex is involved, but the term retains its suggestive quality.